The program is a very user friendly program and easily to work around. We have a copy at the local LDS genealogy library, and we have had a lot of good luck with it. It is worth a lot more than the $49.00 would indicate. Take a little time and learn the in.'s and out's. To those just getting into it I do suggest when you get to the "Gender" portion of putting the information you use "Both" since it so easy not to change from Male to Female, or vise versa, when changing given names. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Hinson" <dhinson@kellnet.com> To: <BOWER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 11:48 AM Subject: [BOWER] 1880 National Census & Index > A review of the LDS' 1880 U.S. National Census & Index CD ROM was in the > recent issue of the Clayton Library Friends newsletter (Houston, TX > public genealogy library) and it sounds like it is worth ordering. See > www.familysearch.com for more info. It's a total of 55 cd's for $49.99, > is the entire census (all of the U.S.) and an index that is more > complete than the Soundex which listed only households with children ten > or younger. You can search by not only surname, but by first name. For > example, if the first name of one of the daughters is Mary and she has > left home and not listed in the 1880 household of her parents and you > don't know who she married, you can search by "Mary" and possibly find > which household she is now living in. You can search for neighbors of > your ancestors as well. From what the review says, the quality of the > data was impressive. They chose 10 households and compared the records > to the actual census and they were all correct. It's search engine > apparently automatically brings up various spellings of the surname as > well. > > I've ordered a copy. If anyone already has it, maybe they will let us > know what they think. > > > ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== > Please do not send messages with attachments, HTML, MIME, or any other > enhanced text to the list. RootsWeb does not allow messages with those > settings through their servers and will only return them to you. >